The Okanagan will begin coming out of the deep freeze this weekend.
Environment Canada Meteorologist Armel Castellan says the daytime high for Kelowna on Sunday, will be around -6 degrees - inching ever closer to -1 - the normal high for this time of year.
He says daytime highs, by mid next week, could hit plus 4 or 5 and there's the chance of rain.
"It's a little bit early to talk about - however, for the coast rain is more of a certainty, but there's going to be a very warm push and Kelowna will not be immune to that as we see temperatures definitely crest above zero. So we'll go from below normal temperatures to above normal temperatures by the middle of next week," he says.
Castellan says December may have felt really cold in Kelowna, but it didn't make the top ten - the average temperature last month was only -2.7 degrees colder than normal ranking 11th coldest - and as for snowfall, he says December 2016 ranked 13th.
Castellan says because the El Nino signal was so strong the first quarter of 2016 was record warm, and then we also saw super warm temperatures in April and May. Overall the average temperature was just over 10 degrees celcius, that's just over 2 degrees warmer than normal, and that brings you to the second warmest year on record since 1969.